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Gather ’Round the Breath
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Cover
Titlepage
Copyright
Introduction
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The Noble Search for Happiness
Why Train the Mind
Counter-cultural Values
The Intelligent Heart
Home Schooling Your Inner Children
The Open Committee
Organizing Your Inner Committee
Unskillful Voices
The Kamma of Self & Not-self
The Need for Stillness
Everybody Suffers
Why the Breath
Why Mindfulness
Concentration Nurtured with Virtue
Concentration & Insight
Part I : Basic Instructions
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In Shape to Meditate
Maintaining Goodwill
Metta Meditation
Goodwill & Heedfulness
Gather ’Round the Breath
Allowing the Breath to Spread
Brahmaviharas at the Breath
Turn Off the Automatic Pilot
Choiceful Awareness
Artillery All Around
Views, Virtue, & Mindfulness
Ekaggata
Training Your Minds
Equanimity
A Mirror for the Mind
Centered in the Body
Mindful Judgment
Part II : Common Problems
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Pain Is Not the Enemy
Pleasure & Pain
Insight into Pain
Take the One Seat
Strengthening Conviction
Perceptions of the Breath
The Power of Perception
Judging Your Meditation
Good & Bad Meditation
Evaluating Your Practice
Measuring Progress
Delusion Concentration
No Mistakes Are Fatal
Ups & Downs
Patience & Urgency
Fabricating with Awareness
The Arrow in the Heart
Unskillful Thinking
Unlearning Unskillful Behavior
The Arrows of Emotion
A Refuge from Aging, Illness, & Death
Sober Up
In the Mood
Today Is Better than Yesterday
Get Out of the Way
Antidotes
Sorting Yourselves Out
Purity of Heart
Feeding on the Breath
Practicing from Gratitude
Part III : Daily Life
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For the Survival of Your Goodness
After-work Meditation
A Culture of Self Reliance
A Wilderness Mind at Home
Skills to Take Home
New Feeding Habits for the Mind
The Skill of Restraint
Right Speech, Inside & Out
A Meditator is a Good Friend to Have
The Ivory Intersection
Caring Without Clinging
Protecting Your Space
An Anthropologist from Mars
Renunciation
Part IV : Advanced Practice
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The Four Jhanas
The Poison Blowfish
Proactive with Pain
The Swinging Balance
A Recipe for Jhana
Sensitive to the Breath
Generating Energy
Balance & Release
Broad, Tall, & Deep
Full Attention
Levels of Truth
Feeding on Feeding
Feeding Frenzy: Dependent Co-arising
Good Eating
Chewed Up by Your Food
Isolating the Aggregates
Sensuality
Transparent Becoming
Cutting New Paths in the Mind
Skills of the Dhamma Wheel
Heedful of Death
Don’t Worry, Be Focused
Strengthening Discernment
Equanimity Isn’t Everything
The Essence of the Dhamma
Freedom Through Painful Practice
Talks on the Buddha’s Sixteen-step Instructions in Breath Meditation :
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The Steps of Breath Meditation
Lessons in Happiness
On the Path of the Breath
The Breath All the Way
Exploring Fabrication
Breath, Tranquility, & Insight
Part V : Finding a Teacher
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Admirable Friendship
To Purify the Heart
Remembering Ajaan Suwat
Multi-Dimensional Dhamma
Factors for Stream-entry
The Brightness of the World
A Refuge from Modern Values
Glossary
